NK Grad Joins Citizens Bank's Commercial Banker Development Program

Jeffrey Siatti, 26, of North Kingston was recently selected by Citizens Bank for its Commercial Banker Development Program.

A 2011 graduate of Elon University who received his MBA from Bryant University in 2014, Siatti joins 12 other CBDP trainees selected from a highly competitive applicant pool.

Launched in 2011, Citizens’ Commercial Banker Development Program gives recent college graduates rewarding and challenging learning opportunities to start their banking careers with a leading financial institution.

“We are pleased to have another promising class of young bankers begin their careers with the Citizens Bank Commercial Banker Development Program,” said Marc Paulhus, President of Citizens Bank in Rhode Island. “This program is an important talent pipeline for Citizens as we continue to grow our commercial bank and serve a wide variety of corporate customers in Rhode Island and across the country.”

“I am very excited to have this opportunity to begin my career in commercial banking with Citizens,” Siatti said. “Citizens is a great company that is really committed to serving its commercial customers and the Commercial Banker Development Program will enable me to learn not only about the bank’s products and services, but also its approach to delivering great ideas to its customers.”

Citizens’ 12-month Commercial Banker Development Program combines intensive classroom instruction with credit analysis writing and two in-depth business line rotations. Citizens selects program participants through campus visits and interviews with students seeking long-term career opportunities in banking. The Commercial Banker Development Program is open to students with a range of educational backgrounds and majors.

Following the successful completion of the program, graduates are placed in a Citizens Commercial Banking business line as credit analysts.

Citizens also offers a Commercial Banking summer internship program to rising seniors. This summer, 17 interns worked across Citizens’ 11-state footprint. Selection for a summer internship position is also highly competitive and the program serves as a feeder for the Commercial Banker Development Program. Seven of this year’s CBDP trainees had previously been summer interns.

Citizens is accepting applications for the Commercial Banker Development Program this month. For more information about Citizens, please go to the Citizens Commercial Banking website.